Monday, October 26, 2015

A Moment of Weakness by Brooklyn Skye

He
can fight anything...except his need for her.

Until
her new job starts in September, buttoned-up elementary school teacher Laurel
Harris is at loose ends and in need of cash. Fortunately her best friend's
older brother is a single dad and desperately needs a nanny. Or so she's told.
She doesn't anticipate him being such a menacing, muscled, and undeniably
gorgeous man...or that he has zero interest in hiring a nanny.

Micah
Crane will do right by his young daughter, no matter the cost. And right now,
that cost is juggling parenthood with long hours at his bar and working as an
enforcer for a notorious crime boss. He doesn't need another complication in
his life, but the sweet, frustratingly opinionated little blonde hell-bent on
caring for his daughter stirs his blood like no woman ever has.

All
it takes is a moment of weakness to ignite the lust blazing between them. A
moment that will unravel their self-control and unleash all of Micah's darkest
secrets...

A
sexy—but moody—mob enforcer falling for the straight-laced soon-to-be-school-teacher
who is looking after his daughter? Yes, please!

Here’s what’s going on.Laurel
needs a job to hold her over until school starts in the fall so when her best
friend’s brother needs a babysitter for his young daughter, she jumps at the
chance. Although she wasn’t expecting Micah to be so sexy…or dangerous.

Micah
isn’t too keen on allowing a stranger to watch after his daughter. While he’s
part owner of a bar, he’s also a mob enforcer so he doesn’t really trust
anyone, but he knows that raising Shae in a bar isn’t the best choice either. So,
he’s agreed to hire Laurel on one condition: she moves into his apartment.
While his daughter is enamored with Laurel, Micah finds her attractive.
Although he soon discovers that Laurel is more than just an itch he has to
scratch but, because of the secrets he keeps, he knows she can be nothing more.

Laurel
is prim and proper and Micah is gruff, broody, and earns money with his fists
so, on paper, it doesn’t really seem like Micah and Laurel will work but,
blimey, they were so good together.

I
really liked Micah. He’s a single father trying to do right by his daughter but
he’s also a mob enforcer. While he knows that it’s not the best choice, he does
it because the money he earns allows him to provide for his daughter. You could
tell that he struggles with this choice and he wants out but he’s afraid that
if he does leave the mob that it will put his daughter on his boss’s radar.
When Laurel comes along, it has him starting to rethink his position.

Laurel—even
though she dog-ears her book pages—, was likable. She’s a fixer. And when she
sees that Micah has been, more-or-less, raising his daughter in a bar, she’s
determined to do all that’s in her power to convince Micah to allow her to
watch Shae. What she wasn’t really prepared for was Micah’s side job. And while
she wasn’t too thrilled with the fact that he was an enforcer, who could
potentially bring harm to their doorstep, she never once looked down on him for
it. She would simply clean his wounds, when he let her, and try to fix his
problems.

I
really enjoyed watching Laurel and Micah figure each other out. While it was
instant attraction for them both, they first had to learn how to cohabitate as
employer and employee. While the chemistry was prevalent from the start, Micah
had some serious issues to deal with that plagued him through most of the book.
There was a lot of things he had deal with and let go of before he could move
on.

The
conflict came mainly from the demons that Micah struggled with and while I knew
that these issues were serious, and I knew that he was going to push Laurel
away once he realized that he was falling for her, I still wanted to slap him
upside the head. While I did like him—and while he was mostly a decent guy—he
knew what to do to hurt Laurel and drive her away, so he did have his wanker
moments as well.

While
this book did have a bit of violence in it, it wasn’t over-the-top or gritty so
if you’re looking for a steamy romance with light mob action this would perfect
for you.

Overall, I loved this book. A Moment of Weakness had it all, characters you could root for,
steamy sex, witty banter, a steady plot, and an adorable six-year-old that
called it like it was.